Highly Notorious Monsters

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Well, I don't get it either, because I'm not against having something LIKE HNMs in FFXIV. But I am quite against the implementation of FFXI's HNM mechanics in FFXIV.

You may be fine with it, but I personally do not think that having to pay regular attention to my computer when I should be doing something else is a valid or even reasonable compromise for a chance at experiencing all the content the game has to offer. I really don't see the point of having multiple hour pop windows instead of, say, making the window just 15 minutes long. Nothing changes and nobody wastes nearly as much time.

i agree with this, make the HNM's pop fast, lower there drop rates to very very low. add mobs around the zone you can kill to higher your drop rates maybe and done. no more afk every 30mins and everyone can fight for HNM's but every 15mins. muscle farming over afk waiting for pops.

the way the rmt used to farm mantra's for angle bones comes to mind, they would pop the worm nm every time it repops and fishers and killers of mantra's. make it some big thing, huge boss pops and inbetween your farming mobs for highering your drop rates. let us jump around bouncing back and forth non stop without the bullshit afk'ing or 24hr pop times. hell let us farm 24hrs and kill them.

also the aspid turtle egg HNM comes to mind. but make the pop 15mins, make every mob in that zone a chance to higher drop rate on the HNM. bam, no more afk.